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Probably the greatest aspect of brewing and beer in general is how accessible every facet of the field really is. If you’d like to try to recreate your favorite IPA at home, there’s a decent chance the recipe will be on the brewery’s website, or at least on a brewing forum like HomebrewTalk.com. Even at the commercial level, one will often find local breweries working together to create a collaborative beer or hosting a homebrew competition for the local community. These competitions are often entered by homebrewers as a way to gain some constructive criticism and attempt to take their brewing to the next level. But again, they are remarkably accessible to anyone with a couple extra 12 oz. bottles of homebrew and the five dollar entry fee. The fee will vary of course, but the point is, competitions are very ubiquitous and very easy to enter. Here are a few resources to get you started on entering your local competition.